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"The Rat Castle" aka "The Haunted House"

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"Monday morning we helped serve the breakfast.  We’re going to the Natural bridge Tuesday.  We went to the  Rat Castle  for Arts and Crafts." (  Jana Shurtz [Mesa 14th or 16th Ward]   July 1958)                                                                                                    This house was built in 1914 making it 44 years old when Jana (above) went there for "Arts & Crafts".  William Thomas McClendon built this house.  His wife was Edith Woodward Fuller, daughter of original Pine settlers, Elijah Knapp Fuller & Ellen Celeste Woodward Fuller. I was thrilled to find mention of this farmhouse in Edith's Life Sketch on Family Search! "After they moved back to Pine, they all lived with Edith's mother until William Thomas bought a place about two miles up in the canyon from Pine. He bought it from an old man who lived in a cabin about a block from where William Thomas and a cousin built their home. The house had four rooms downstairs